Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

It is the master-wheel which makes the mill go round. Pr.

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes solitude intolerable to a man. Schiller.

It is the music in the ear that finds and interprets the music of the orchestra. C. H. Parkhurst.

It is the nature of despair to blind us to all 30 means of safety. Fielding.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, an it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon.

It is the nature of parties to retain their original enmities far more firmly than their original principles. Macaulay.

It is the office of the Church to teach, not to train. Ward Beecher.

It is the ordinary way of the world to keep folly at the helm, and wisdom under the hatches. Pr.

It is the part of a good man to do great and 35 noble deeds, though he risks everything. Plutarch.

It is the part of a wise man to resist pleasures, but of a foolish one to be a slave to them. Epictetus.